Alex Thevaranjan

Associate Professor of Accounting

PhD (accounting), Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Research Topics

Agency theory

Managerial accounting

Incentive schemes

The ethics of economics

Economic solutions to spam

Ethical leadership

Professor Thevaranjan teaches courses in managerial accounting and has a special interest in teaching students to understand the role that ethics and values play in organizational decision making. He also directs the Whitman/SU summer study and internship program in Singapore.

Professor Thevaranjan’s research revolves around agency theory and organizational control. The main contribution of his research has been in extending the principal-agent framework to study issues pertaining to effort allocation. Selected Publications"A Moral Solution to the Moral Hazard Problem," (2009), Accounting, Organizations and Society, with D. Stevens.

"Returns to Scale Pattern and Efficient Firm Size in the Public Accounting Industry: An Empirical Investigation," (2009), Journal of the Operational Research Society, with H. Chang and G. Galantine